| Those are the words of Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Fourth China-US Relations Conference in Beijing, this week. He added that that the "China-US relations today is one of partnership and cooperation, not zero-sum competition."
And Jon Huntsman, the new US ambassador to China offered that the two countries must "help each other, learn from each other and make progress together."
"In the face of global challenges, such as financial crisis, energy shortage, terrorism, arms proliferation, food security and commutable diseases, countries are becoming more interdependent," Yang said.
Huntsman added that said that the two nations shared interests in "headline issues" such as energy efficiency, climate change, regional security, nuclear safety and the global recession.
Talk is cheap, and we have all heard rosy rhetoric before. Yang's observation, that "countries are becoming more interdependent," may be the understatement of the year.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said he does not think a legally binding deal on climate change will be agreed upon at a December summit in Copenhagen.
The whole world over, politicians have marvelous things to say, but predictably stumble when it comes time to get things done. Always, it takes outspoken insistence from the people to generate dramatic action.
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